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Re: Proposal to Improve National Camp Selection Process
I have to disagree with your assessment of the goalie coaching. Yes, coaching goalies these days involves a lot of footwork drills, the point of which is to develop muscle memory so in game action they will react without thinking. When I was playing youth hockey, all of the goalies were coached by shooting pucks at them and yelling at them to stay on their feet.
Any youth program that is not providing specialized goalie coaching, even at the youngest ages, will soon find out what all the fuss is about.
agree 100%....and it's much worse when it comes to goalies...all these USA Hockey idiots want are robotic clones....it's all about how u do certain drills....regardless of how you actually PLAY the position or god forbid...keep pucks out of the net...no...it's all about how u look in their lithe choreographed drills u end up rewarding robots who look great in warmups but......um, suck when the game starts. LOLS
I have to disagree with your assessment of the goalie coaching. Yes, coaching goalies these days involves a lot of footwork drills, the point of which is to develop muscle memory so in game action they will react without thinking. When I was playing youth hockey, all of the goalies were coached by shooting pucks at them and yelling at them to stay on their feet.
Any youth program that is not providing specialized goalie coaching, even at the youngest ages, will soon find out what all the fuss is about.